Lectures

Thursday 7 June 2012
NO. 4992
VOL. 142

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences

Mathematical Institute Colloquium

Professor Bruce Kleiner, NYU, will deliver the Mathematical Institute Colloquium at 4.30 pm on 8 June in Lecture Theatre 2, Mathematical Institute, St Giles'.

Subject: 'Bilipschitz embeddings of metric spaces in Banach spaces'

Colleges, Halls and Societies

Christ Church

Summer Lectures

The following lectures will be given at 4.30 pm on Wednesdays in the North Transept, Christ Church Cathedral. All welcome; admission free.

Lord Blair

18 Jul: 'Faith in public life'

Andrew Dilnot

25 Jul: 'Care for the elderly: why and what does Christianity have to say?'

Stella Fletcher

1 Aug: 'Cardinal Wolsey on stage and screen'

Canon Edmund Newell

8 Aug: 'Lords spiritual: bishops in the House of Lords'

Canon Angela Tilby

15 Aug: 'Electronic communication and the language of Heaven'

Canon Mark Williams

22 Aug: 'Mindfulness: theory and practice'

St John's

Stephen Wolfram Lecture

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, A New Kind of Science and Wolfram Alpha, will speak at 5 pm on 12 June in St John's Auditorium. Admission is free and all members of the University are welcome. For further details see www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/events.

Subject: 'Science, software, companies: life after Oxford'

Robert Penson Lecture in Garden History

Dr Jon Whiteley will lecture at 5 pm on 21 June in the Garden Quadrangle Auditorium, St John's. The lecture is open to the public. Enquiries may be directed to Mrs Ruth Toureau (email: ruth.toureau@sjc.ox.ac.uk).

Subject: 'Gardens and the cult of the picturesque'